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ارقلت

Root: رقل

Form: 4

Full Definition

ارقلتIV , said of a palm-tree (نَخْلَة), Verbal.Noun إِرْقَالٌ, It became such as is termed رَقْلَة [q. v.].
2 ارقل, said of a he-camel, or ارقلت, said of a she-camel, Verbal.Noun as above, He, or she, went quickly; went a sort of quick pace; went a sort of pace of the kind termed خَبَب [q. v.]: or went a sort of run exceeding that termed خَبَب: and signifies the same as ارقلت. ارقل is also said of a man, meaning He went quickly. And you say, ارقلوا فِى الحَرْبِ, or إِلَى الحَرْبِ, They went quickly in, or to, war, or battle. And فُلَانٌ يُرْقِلُ فِى الأُمُورِ [Such a one is quick in affairs]. And أَرْقَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ is metaphorically said, by Aboo-Heiyeh En-Numeyree, of spears [as meaning They had been quickly directed towards him].

def.2 Accord. to Lth and the K, ارقل also signifies He traversed, or crossed, a desert: and Lth cites the following verse of El-'Ajjáj [as his authority for this explanation]: لَاهُمَّ رَبِّ البَيْتِ وَالمُشَرَّقِ وَالمُرْقِلَاتِ كُلَّ سُهْبٍ سَمْلَقِ but Az says that this is a mistake of Lth; that كُلَّ is here an adv. n.; and that the meaning is, [O God, by the Lord of the House and of the Musharrak and] by the Lord of the swift she-camels in every even plain: and ISd also has notified the same.
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